Reply #197: Tell it to the Timorese. And Chileans. And this "healing" bit is bullshit

[bread_and_roses]

We never "healed" from the Nixon Presidency - that was nothing but the spin of the time and no more valid than the MSM's spinning of that little sociopath currently occupying the WH as a strong leader. It was the expedient thing to protect the power structure and Ford was a willing tool, who's hapless, harmless demeanor was perfect for reassuring people after the Machiavellian Nixon that Nixon was an aberration we had put behind us. But look who stayed on in that administration. Nixon left but that monster Kissenger stayed.

I just love how those talking about what a "good" man Ford was never address the issue of East Timor - another illustration of the general willingness of Americans to gloss over/forget/ignore our govm't's support of slaughtering people as long as they are poor and brown.

And yes, I was alive and adult at the time.